Here are some of this week’s interesting posts and articles from the world of SEO and search engine marketing.

comScore Looks at Who is Searching for What, Why and When
Martketing Pilgrim: But the Q&A format is the basis for Ask.com and it ties in to content sites such as eHow and Yahoo Answers so comScore decided to take a closer look at the folks who do use Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How in their queries.

Google Tweaks AdSense Code To Speed Loads
SE Land: Google is making good on promises it made to speed its AdSense code, rolling out an overhaul aimed at relieving the drag on publishers’ Web pages.

THE Top 5 Social Media Campaigns
SE People: An increasing number of businesses are turning to social media in order to promote their brands and/or new products and services.

Top 4 Reasons to Abandon SEO
Marketing Pilgrim: I’ve compiled a list of the reasons I feel justify abandoning your SEO efforts and I hope it leaves you thinking about the value of all of your marketing campaigns and how they fit into your overall strategy.

Google May Lower Rankings of Keyword Domains
SE Watch: A Cutts quote from this video has gotten some attention: “…some people have complained that we’re giving a little too much weight for keywords in domains. And so we have been thinking about adjusting that mix a little bit and sort of turning the knob down within the algorithm, so that given two different domains it wouldn’t necessarily help you as much to have a domain with a bunch of keywords in it.”

Traffic Down From Panda Update – Diversify Your Traffic Sources
Graywolf: “If your rankings are soured by an update you may become angry at Google. IMHO that is just not the smartest or most profitable approach. May I suggest you take a more productive step and diversify your traffic flow. This can also increase the quality signals of your website which will decrease your chances getting soured over a Google update.”

Hello world! There is no Europe!
Mikked deMib: There is a politically united Europe. There is a geographical Europe. There is a dream among some that we will one day get a United States of Europe. But from a marketing point of view the fact remains that there is no Europe and there are no Europeans!